bayt.com
Job Description
- Responsible for the profitability and development by leading and Managing the Bakery category to achieve targeted budget Sales/GP/Value & Contribution and ensure that the Bakery is a leading destination department within the market.
- Negotiate with supplier to achieve category GP through BDA or below the line income
- Maintain category margin and contribution value.
- Negotiate with suppliers promo plan and activities for category profits and extra income
- Looking for new Supplier to get customer benefit & additional income.
- Manage the Range and costings
- Manage optimum production according to customer demands.
- Select competitive range according customer demand &range strategy.
- Prepare and implement planogram to maximize sales, GP, and space utilization.
- Maintain high quality and freshness of stock.
- Ensure highest standard packaging and presentation
- Ensure deliciousness in baked items to attract customers.
- Support operation team for production plan.
- Tasting plan to maximize the sales
- Ensure that operation team used right and standard recipe for manufactured products.
- Involve in New store opening plan to implementation and manage category planogram
- Implement promotion strategy according to customer profile demand and category demand
- implement the strategy of pricing to ensure that the prices are competitive and profits are maximized
- Maintain availability of products.
- Identify the new trend in dept.
- Analyze the sales of category and action plan to improve it
- Analyze range accordingly to customer needs and seasonality and action on time.
- Action plan on short expiry items
- Action plan on low quality stock.
- Daily promotion plan strategy
- Ensure all products are high quality and fresh to minimize the wastage.
- Analyze the Wastage and Shrinkage to minimize it
- Maintain optimum stock.
- Daily production to maintain the freshness of products and improve the inventory turns and GP.
- Action plan for over stock & slow moving Items
- Involve in preparing annual budget for Sales/Purchase/Inventory/GM/BM..
- Analyzing actual result to budget and prepare action plan to achieve variance target.
- Monthly and Quarterly review of performance against Budgets through proper analysis with action plans and follow up
- Developing and maintaining successful relations with vendors to get the best services.
- Evaluate supplier performance.
- Negotiate with supplier long & short terms agreement
- Periodical meeting to evaluate previous performance and to prepare plan for coming period and solving any problems
- Responsible about all business process related to category department (Order process,BDA process, promotion process,…..etc)
- Implement &Monitoring work flow and road map of process
- Responsible to benchmark current process and systems with industry best practices.
- Analyze and document business processes and problems. Develop solutions to enhance efficiencies.
- Time Management.
- Stores visit :
- Identify visit prospects.
- Checking :
- Implementation of planogram.
- Availability of items.
- Quality of products.
- Hygiene of section
- Over stock and action.
- Discussion with store manager the ways to maximize Sales, GP for category
- Ensure compliance of all food processing laws and regulations.
- Identify issues to solve.
- Competitor visit :
- Frequently competitor store visit to observe new trend, pricing & promotion.
- Observe supplier’s investment
- Develop valued team, who can take responsibilities and finish the task.
- Build effective relation with members in order to become team player.
- Develop their skills
- Identify the weaknesses of staff member for training and development.
- Motivating subordinates for the heist performance.
- Leading a team work discussions and meetings for the best team performance.
- Following the team tasks to achieve company target.
Skills
- Extensive MS Office Suite experience including above average knowledge of Excel
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills
- Strong understanding of Bakery/Deli including recipes and cost calculation.
- Strong relationships and network of vendors for sourcing product and industry information
- Demonstrated skills in sourcing and procurement of ingredients and consumables related to production.
- Strong knowledge of production plans and processes.
- 5 Years’ experience as category manager in bakery and deli is a must with leading retail chain